eBook: The Predictable Revenue Guide to Tripling Your Sales

Authored by Chisom Uche on November 10, 2015

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The world's filled with sales advice. Some great, some harmful, mostly outdated or 'nice'.

'Nice' is helpful if you want a 30% bump. But what if you want a 300% increase? It happens more often and more systematically than you may realize...

If you care about sales for your team or company, here are a few PRACTICAL, REPEATABLE ideas that have been proven to make a HUGE difference in sales.

As in a $100+ million difference.

Or going public and selling for $1+ billion.

Or "only" doubling or tripling sales.

At a minimum, this ebook by Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin can help give you more peace of mind, predictability and clarity in how to make next year the best yet.

Download all four parts at once:

Part 1: Intro + Customer Success

Part 2: Marketing + Nets

Part 3: Outbound Sales

Part 4: Epic Sales Scalability

As in a $100+ million difference.

Or going public and selling for $1+ billion.

Or "only" doubling or tripling sales.

At a minimum, this ebook by Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin can help give you more peace of mind, predictability and clarity in how to make next year the best yet.

Download all four parts at once:

Part 1: Intro + Customer Success

Part 2: Marketing + Nets

Part 3: Outbound Sales

Part 4: Epic Sales Scalability

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